Parish Prayer

My parish is composed of people like me. I help
make it what it is.
It will be friendly, if I am.
It will be holy, if I am.
Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them.
It will do great work, if I work.
It will be prayerful, if I pray.
It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I
am a generous giver.
It will bring others into worship, if I invite
and bring them in.
It will be a place of loyalty and love, of
fearlessness and faith, of compassion,
charity, and mercy, if I, who make it what it
is, am filled with these same things.
Therefore, with the help of God, I now dedicate
myself to the task of being all the things that
I want my parish to be.